A
tired steel worker listens as her colleagues’ gossip. After a while, she
escapes into the lush, flower-filled meadows of her imagination. The eight
trigrams of the title refer to a traditional practice of fortune-telling in
China. When the expression eight trigrams occurs nowadays, it means chitchat.
Huang Xiang questions the relationship between illusion and reality. Universal
order or idle talk? All a question of perspective.